and citizenry to hear the police scanner. police and fire scanners block is that signal. steve: they are going to start encrypting it. every newsroom i have ever worked in over there at the assignment desk. the dispatcher has a police scanner so he can hear when there is a chemical still spill or a hostage situation. ainsley: traffic congestion. steve: something of interest to the people so that we can get the word out hey, avoid this intersection because there is a chemical spill or there is an active shooter or stuff like that. what they re doing is essentially going to encrypt all the channels and only for decades news departments all across the country have listened to that so they know where to send the crews. in chicago, when we send crews to the news and there is breaking news, bad news all
over, it s making chicago look bad. so the question is, is lori lightfoot encrypting the police scanners so the news media in chicago can t report the news? it kind of looks like it. and that s why a whole bunch of news outfits out there have sent letters to the mayor she will not budge. you walk into any newsroom, local newsroom across the country and you will see the assignment desk and all the reporters are sitting in the newsroom. we all had cubicles, our desks were facing each other so we could see each other and always hear what was going on. short across the newsroom saying this is just breaking get on the set we have got to report. this there is a shooting at the school or a bus that s overturned or whatever it might be in local news a and you can hear thos those scanners up at e assignment desk. they are getting the news in realtime so we can report it to you. because sometimes it effects you and your family. there is a letter to the fox 32 readers in chicago and it talks ab